Torn Country

Zeyno Baran examines the intense struggle between Turkey''s secularists and Islamists in their most recent battles over their country''s destination. Looking into the fate of both Turkey''s secularism and its democratic experiment, she shows that, for all the flaws of its political journey, the modern Turkish state has managed to maintain an essential separation between religion and the political realm-a separation that is now in jeopardy.